Archive for the ‘People’ Category
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Someone doesn't like a literary agent by the name of Barbara Bauer. Barbara wants to make sure we all know about it.
There was an article put up on Wikipedia that made her look quite bad, referring to her as the "dumbest of the twenty worst" agents, among other things. The ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
It's almost like the story that caused the "Streisand Effect" to be coined. Google StreetView captures images of homes and businesses all over the country. In this case, they went on a private road to get their imagery, and the owners of a house on that road are suing Google ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In April of 2007, a group of girls at Framingham State College went to a lacrosse game and cheered on their team, bare-bellied. When they found out that a photo of them was going to be on the front page of the student newspaper, they stole nearly 1,000 copies of ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In September of 2006, fashion model Daniela Cicarelli was videotaped having sex in the ocean with her boyfriend, Merrill Lynch employee Tato Malzoni. The video was quickly posted on YouTube and then was quickly deleted. Despite being deleted, the video was still showing up on various websites and file sharing ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
At a show on July 24, 2007 concert in Orlando, Beyonce fell down a some stairs and tumbled to the stage. While it appeared to be quite a nasty fall, she hopped back up and continued the show.
At the end of the concert, she asked her fans to please keep ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
This one is quite odd. A man took his 14 year old daughter on a camping trip with his wife (the girl's step-mother) and later the step-mother posted the pictures on her MySpace page. The pictures included photos of the 14 year old in her bikini, though none ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A YouTube user created a video of the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, in which he was portrayed as a monkey.
The Thai government decided their best course of action would be to ban all of YouTube from the country.
The result was YouTube users everywhere creating more clips bashing the king, ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In early 2007, Paula Abdul appeared on the "Good Day LA" show and seemed to be a bit tipsy. Her and Fox explained her behavior as "technical difficulties", but many people felt otherwise.
As the buzz was beginning to die down from the incident, Fox decided to send a DMCA takedown ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
As Techdirt put it: "A new Chancellor was selected to lead a Community College District in northern Harris County, Texas. A critical blog was set up to blast the new Chancellor, who quickly had IT block it on all campus computers. As these things always do, it backfired. The college ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In 2003, Barbara Streisand filed a $50 million lawsuit against Kenneth Adelman because he had posted an aerial photo of her home on his website. His website contained around 12,000 photos of the California coastline as a way to document coastal erosion.
Streisand's house had gained virtually no attention online until ...
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